Tomoji Abe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tomoji Abe

Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist and translator

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1903

Place of Birth: Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 23-Apr-1973

Profession: writer, translator, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Tomoji Abe (?? ??, Abe Tomoji, 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature.
Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature.
This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on esthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Sato, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata).
Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Showa period (1925–1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions.